Over the past year or so I’ve simplified most of my photo editing workflow down to Darkroom on the iPad. This looks like an interesting first step in supporting video, but so far it seems restricted to cropping and applying filters and exposure/color adjustments. Operations like trimming the video clip would still need to be done in a separate app.
Category: Video
How Pencils Are Made ↬
You ever read/view something, say to yourself, “That would make a good blog post,” and totally forget to bookmark it? After my colleague Katie mentioned that the Philadelphia Museum of Art had a pencil bar, I told her I had just seen a post with behind-the-scenes videos of pencils being made.
Except: I didn’t have the link anywhere in my Pinboard, and my browser history didn’t turn up any hits. Turns out:
- I had read it via RSS reader
- It was on Kottke.org
The music on the Faber-Castell video is a bit … much, but I am fascinated by the multi-stage process. The Derwent video is (as noted by Jason Kottke) less slick, but it’s also more soothing as a result.
Some related bits ’n bobs:
- A New York Times photo essay from last year, with some great images from behind the scenes at the General Pencil factory
- Pencil Revolution, a pencil enthusiast blog
- In the early 2000s I lived in a converted Dixon Mills (maker of Ticonderoga pencils) factory in Jersey City. (It’s a bit shocking to me how much the real estate market has changed in JC.)
My friend Henry and I were discussing note-taking tools, and he mentioned that he’d been using some of the Blackwing line. I’ve always preferred a pen, but I’m starting to think I should give pencils a try.
Converting Canon T1i Video for the PS3
Joseph and Kristen have been experimenting with their Canon T1i’s video lately. The MOV files don’t have native support on the PS3, so Joseph and I went digging for a way to convert them. The default PS3 setting in Handbrake resulted in unreadable files, so we experimented with a variety of things: custom recipes for […]
Crisis of Credit
Via Motionographer: The Crisis of Credit Visualized from Jonathan Jarvis on Vimeo.